The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-03
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man who is in his Goth year. and has never seen
a piano, never been within ten miles of rail-
road, never wore collar or necktie, never had
on pair of socks since he can remember
SIXTEEN-YEAR-oLD WILLIAM SHELTERS, of
Highland, Mimi. was bitten on the hand by a
rattesnake and. in spite of the whisky that he
drank, and all other remedies that could be OBJ
tained he died in great agony within twelve
hours.
FRANK PuRDY and David Sherman two Indian
printer boys at the Genoa (Neb) Indian school,
are trying to raise $3.50 for small printing out
MT with which TO issue paper from that school
called The Pipe OF Peace Their SubScglp is
Endorsed by the superintendent of the school.
THREE children, the eldest II and the youngest
3, found horse caught in railroad bridge
near Piedmont, Mo. 1t was toward evening and
a passenger train was soon due; so the little
ones made bonfire on the track, and when the
train came in sight waved burning branches.
The engineer stopped the engine the horse was
removed, the tram went on, and few or the pas
sengelS knew how near they had been to an ac-
cident.
THE ENEMIES of the Young Mems Christian
Association frequently assert that it is in a
state of decadence, but the facts do not bear
out this assertion. On the contrary, it is grow
ing in influence and power. While so much is
being done for young men, it is a matter for
sincere regret that SO little i'll the same way has
been done for young women. The Dung
Womeus Christian Association of New York
city Is u model that ought to be copied in
great many other cities.
SEVERAL WEEKS AGO a young lady and her
mother went to Findlay, o., from Michigan to
visit friends There the young woman met a
young man who pleased her and soon they were
engaged to be married. Her lover begged for
an immediate marriage, and the girl consented
and day was set, but friend of the girl
stepped in at the last hour and proved that the
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time and imprisonment in the penitentiary.
There was an exciting scene, and the wedding
party broke up "a
CHARLES E. JACKSON, of Halifax, Fla, has a
pet snake that catches rats jackson heard
racket in a cupboard, and, opening the door,
found the snake had captured a rat and was
trying to swallow it nose first. The rat was
alive, and StrenuouSly protested against going
into such hole, using his feet to catch hold of
the floor or other surroundings J'he snake,
wiser than the rat, raised him up foot or two
in the air, and in that position continued the
swallowing process, dropping down to the floor
to rest occasionally, until the rat was swallowed.
DANIEL ROGERS, miner near Orc, Ari., had
both hands blown off at the wrist by a prema-
ture discharge of giant powder recently. He
was alone, and he walked two miles to a deserted
cabin, where he bound up the stumps of his
wrists after a fashion with pieces of curtain.
which he tore with his teeth. He travelled all
night, during which time his trousers became
loose and dropped around his feet. He kicked
off his shoes and the trousers, and at O'Clock
was found lying unconscious near a Mexican
cabin. He was taken to a hospital and is get
ting well.
The latest contribution to the curious litera-
ture of French statistics is by NJ. Renaudin,
who has been busying himself about the Forty
Immortals of the Academy. He finds that the
ages of the august Forty, when Jumped to-
gether and added up, give total of 1857 years.
The doyer of the body by age is the Baron de
VielCastel whose principal literary luggage is
a history of the Restoration. He is 81, and NJ.
Cuvilier Fleury is IS. NJ. de Lesseps comes next
with 81 years. The fair haired boys of the
body are NJ. Sully Prudhomme, the poet, who is
AZ, and Francois Coppee, who is 43.
Mr.. JOHN McKEowN, of Oil City, Pa, struck
it rich. On June % last an oil well that he had
been boring came in. 1t was good well from
the start At first it yielded 80 barrels an hour.
After producing at this rate few days it was
drilled deeper into the sand A new pay
streak was found and its production immedi-
ately increased to 40 barrels an hour. Since
June % it has produced l45 900 barrels of OIL on
which Mr.. Mckeown has realized Csc, per barrel.
He has no partners, and owning the land i'll fee
has no royalty to pay. The entire output has
been his own, and this amounted in The two
months and four days to 1913, 600. The original
cost of the well was about $4,000 and the ex-
pense of taking care of il since it was struck
not over $500. This would leave Mr.. McKeown
q profit from this one well OS S94, 100. The well
is still doing 30 barrels an hour, and experienced
operators think it will turn out S150,00O worth
of oil even at the present low prices Which is
why we remark that Mr.. John McKeown STUCK
il rich
A sADDER STORY than this one, taken from the
Kansas City Journal, is rarely told: ''In the
ladies' waiting room at the Union Station sat q
young husband and his wife. The man, honest
faced and bronzed by exposure to the sun, held
in his arms what many doubtless looked upon
as a sleeping babe. At his side sat young
woman with an oldfashioned sun bonnet pulled
over rather handsome but girlish face. Her
dark eyes were moist with tears. She took but
little notice of those about her. but kept her
eyes fastened necessarily upon the still burden
that rested in the arms of her husband The
cause of their grief could be easily guessed.
The white cloth, upon which lightly rested a
hand accustomed to toll, covered the bloodless
features of a dead child A Sadder spectacle of
mute sorrow has rarely been witnessed The
baby died in its mothers arms on board Union
Pacific train just before reaching this city The
father covered the dead face with cloth, and
held the body until an undertaken arrived to
take charge of it,,
THE first part of the administrative report on
the railways in India for 1867 has just been
issued by the Indian government. Accompany
ing the report is letter from the Director-Gen-
eral of Railways, stating that the net receipts
for the year 1886 show an increase, as compared
with 1885, of 6.314,596 rupees, and the percent
age on the capital expended on open lines gives
return equivalent to $50 per cent, against 5S4
of the previous year. There had been a general
increase in the net receipts and percentage
earned on most of the lines in India, but more
especially on the great Indian Peninsula and
Raiputana- Midway railways In the case of the
former this satisfactory result is attributed td
the improvement recorded under goods traffic
toward which the carriage of cotton wheat and
railway materials mainly contributed On the
other hand there had been decrease on the
Northwestern railway, due to very large fail
ing off in the wheat export trade, caused by the
high prices and scarcity of food grains in IKE
Puniab The earnings for the first three months
of the present year show a slight decrease from
those of the corresponding period of last year,
but substantial improvement compared with
the returns for 1885.
The dispute respecting the genuineness or
otherwise of the Schiller skull is of very old
standing. Julius Schwabe raised the question
in 1852, and since then all has been uncer-
tainty and contradiction. OF late years the
leaders of the opposed camps have been
Schaaffhausen, of Bonn, and Hermann Weker
of Halle. The former holds that the skull is
genuine, but that the lower jawbone is false
while Welker. who has just contributed an arti-
Gle on the subject to the .4Tcht1ttr AnthFopoLo-
gle, holds TO the ungenuineness of the skull
which he supports by new proof. Schaafhausen
maintains that the lower 1awbone is fabe be-
cause IL does not conform with the upper Jaw
bone as is at once seen when the two bones are